Suspend kills my command line?!

Okay... Boot to CLI. Start X. Suspend with X running. Come out of suspend. Exit X. End up back at the console, right?
Wrong. No text, no command prompt, just a blank screen after X exits. Machine responds to ctrl-alt-dlt but doesn't seem to respond to anything else - hard to tell though, what with no output.
What gives?

Gullible Jones wrote:
iphitus wrote:
does the same happen if you just kill X straight away, without the suspend cycle?
What sort of suspend are you using?
suspend to ram, swsusp, uswsusp, suspend2?
How are you suspending? hibernate-scripts? other scripts? own script?
what graphics hardware?
is this a new problem? and if so, what version of the kernel? Or is it the first time you've tried?
framebuffer or normal console?
cmon man, you've been here for ages, you know the drill. Give us as much details as you can, and we can help, otherwise, we're just guessing and wasting both of our time.
James
Suspend to RAM, with powersave (only one really compatible with Gnome). Intel i945 graphics, kernel26 stock (latest version), normal console. Been this way since I got suspend working properly (had to add acpi_sleep=s3_mode to menu.lst entry, otherwise monitor didn't come back on).
and does it happen if you leave X (before suspending)?
try adding Option "VBERestore" "on" to the device section for your graphics, that fixed some problems with suspend on my i845 laptop. Other things worth messing with might be vbetool.
can you ssh in and see if there's anything interesting in dmesg?
is the screen blanked? or turned off? (can you see the backlight still running?)
James

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Thanks to all that reply

I used the following to get the spid and killed the process on the OS.
set linesize 120
col sid for 999
col username for a14 trunc
col osuser for a18 trunc
col spid for 99990
col logon_time for a12
col status for a9 trunc
col machine for a26 trunc
col running for a10 trunc
select s.sid
, s.username
, s.osuser
, s.machine
, s.status
, p.spid spid
, to_char( logon_time, 'Mon dd@hh24:mi') logon_time
, rtrim (s.module)||decode( nvl(length( rtrim(s.module)),0),0,'',' ')|| upper(s.program) running
from v$session s
, v$process p
where ( p.addr = s.paddr ) and s.type!='BACKGROUND'
and upper(s.program) not like '%CJQ0%' and s.program is not null and s.username is not null
order by s.sid;

Suspend kills my command line?!

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